After gaining a degree in politics at Leeds University and spending a year in Barcelona, London based painter Andrew Burgess studied fine art at The Byam Shaw School, leaving in 1996 with a second Batchelor of Arts degree. He has won a series of awards including the Apthorp Fund for Young Artists painting prize, a bursary from The Worshipful Company of Painters/Stainers and in November 1998, The New English Art Club School of Drawing Scholarship. In 2005 his painting of a Philadelphia street scene was selected for the prestigious Hunting Art Prize exhibition at The Royal College of Art.
Andrew has exhibited widely over the last few years. Highlights have included two successful solo shows in Cork Street and another at the Gavin Graham Gallery in Notting Hill in March 2003. Since 2000 Andrew has been represented by The Cynthia Corbett Gallery and has exhibited work regularly at many major art fairs including The London Art Fair at The Business Design Centre, Art London in Chelsea and The Art on Paper Fair at the RCA. Cynthia has also exhibited Andrew’s work at contemporary art fairs in Glasgow, Madrid and Boston and several mixed exhibitions, including “Object of Design” at The Cynthia Corbett Gallery and “Living in the City” at The Glass House Gallery in Leadenhall Market. Andrew’s work has been selected and will be showcased at the AAF Contemporary Art Fair in New York in June 2007.
In 2000 Andrew was interviewed by the award-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro for the magazine Modern Painters. Ishiguro has continued to be an enthusiastic collector of Andrew’s painting. Andrew’s work has also been reviewed or featured in The Times, The Evening Standard and The Week magazine. His paintings and photographs have been selected for the front covers of North West, South West and Upside magazine. Recently his images have appeared in The Independent on Sunday’s “Talk of the Town” and Will Bennett’s “Art Sales” column in The Daily Telegraph.
Since 2000 Andrew has also completed several prestigious commissions. He painted a view of the River Thames for APL Shipping and two Italian cityscape paintings for Cunard that now hang in the Lido dining room on the new Queen Mary II ocean liner. Andrew was also asked to be the official artist for Crossrail, the company responsible for building a new rail link across London, the second largest engineering project in British history. Over the course of a year Andrew drew and painted many of the locations around London where the proposed new stations will be built. Crossrail are planning an exhibition of these works at The Royal Academy alongside their architectural models and plans. At the present time Andrew is completing a view of Cardinal Tower in Farringdon for Cardinal Lysander Plc, one of the UK’s biggest property investment companies.
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